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Transforming America’s Built Environment (Video)
The country’s 120 million buildings consume 42 percent of our nation’s total energy and 72 percent of our electricity. Watch the second in our series of Reinventing Fire videos that detail what we can do to use less energy and become more efficient, simply by adopting today's existing building efficiency techniques and design strategies.
Driving the Next Industrial Revolution Through Efficiency
President Obama’s call in his State of the Union address to capitalize on “the strongest two-year period of manufacturing growth since the 1990s” by encouraging businesses to bring work back to the United States can be accelerated with energy efficiency innovation.
GSA Challenges ESCOs to Retrofit to Net Zero
Energy service companies (ESCOs) have provided billions of dollars worth of energy savings through building retrofits — and inspired even the most reluctant clients to seek out energy efficiency. Yet certain building owners can achieve far greater energy and cost savings through the adoption of deep energy retrofits
A Solar Star Recedes for Now, Plus More EV News
This Outlet blog post offers RMI perspective on energy topics in the news this week. First is U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ decision to leave Congress and the solar energy legacy she leaves. We also discuss the latest on electric vehicles, which will make headlines this week on both coasts.
Energy Efficiency Gains Star Power
Clean technology may have been a political hot potato in 2011, but energy efficiency is becoming downright cool.